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Democrats to Trump: Here, you win

The other day at a Harrisburg press briefing, Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey highlighted one more way Democrats are angling to lose to Donald Trump in 2020.“The top Democratic presidential candidates,” the senator said, “are competing with each other over who can do more harm to this ...

He’s going it alone

President Trump is one world leader that stands alone.He’s the only head-of-state to have walked away from a plan that had been embraced by leaders around the world – The Paris Climate Agreement.He’d promised he’d do it.Last Monday he did.While 187 countries across the globe signed onto ...

Remember the soldier on Vets Day

Army Captain Jack Golden wrote his father from Europe during World War II: “I feel like I’m 80.” He was 22-years-old in 1944. “You get so tired you stop doing the small things that are important to your safety and if you get tired enough you don’t care whether you live or die.... We ...

Impeachment: Something a tweet can’t stop

There’s unrest all over the world.In the Catalonia region of Spain, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the streets – protesting for secession. They don’t want to be part of Spain, anymore.In Lebanon, Iraq, Bolivia, Pakistan, Chili, and Hong Kong there are hundreds of thousands ...

Wanted: campaign crackle-and-pop

A little after 10 on a recent Saturday morning, Vince Vicites stepped from a vehicle in front of the local UMW headquarters near the Walmart in South Union TownshipVicites, the long serving Fayette County commissioner, was here in his role as candidate Vince Vicites. He’s up for reelection on ...

A de facto quid pro quo per se

There I was.Minding my own business back in February of 1991.I was taking in that classic thriller, “Silence of the Lambs.”Suddenly, and without warning, that vile, serial killing cannibal (with the cleverly rhymed first name), Hannibal Lecter (played by Anthony Hopkins), utters the phrase, ...